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Quote by Jacques Barzun
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - J

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun

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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you dont want it. – Duke Ellington

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher

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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac

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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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